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T 3/15
Class 1
  1. index card activity
  2. who owns laptops?
  3. no mentoring Thursday and Friday March 17 & 18 but mentoring continues for this class
  4. review class wiki--content and navigation
  5. discuss philosophy statement >
  6. Bedford Handbook check
  7. chapter 1 assignment without blog
  8. mentoring surveyand mentoring checkup
  9. technology in the classroom survey

Th 3/17
Class 2
  1. blog overview
    1. introduction to blogs
    2. blog vs. book analogy
  2. ^set up a blog account
  3. create chapter 1 blog entry
  4. put your blog URL on the class artifacts page but only when you have Mergatroy
  5. look at Bedford Handbook UMF list
  6. revise your first blog entry/entries
  7. read Bedford focus for chapter 2 assignment
  8. look at homework to read Bedford focus for 3 and 4
  9. review 5 quotes assignment
  10. add Joy of Teaching citation
  11. technology in the classroom survey
T 3/22
Class 3
  1. share quotes
  2. enter your quote in the artifacts wiki
  3. how did it go to get your chapter 2 writing into your blog?
  4. group synthesis of answers to chapter 2 questions
  5. any questions about Bedford focus for chapters 3 or 5?
  6. a look at chapter 3 assignment and EDU101 notebook (part 1) assignment
  7. what's an artifact? why are we collecting them?
Th 3/24
Class 4
  1. any blog issues?
  2. Borderlands Symposium
  3. who are schools for brainstorm activity
  4. a little bit of time with your Build A School team
  5. look ahead at certification research
  6. permission forms
  7. the last quotes that need to be added to the class wiki
  8. what's an artifact? why are we collecting them?
  9. look ahead at assignments--feel free to work ahead except for chapter 4 and formative assessment
  10. what was "the sentence" in chapter 3?
  11. chapter 3 "debates"
T 3/29
Class 5
  1. chapter 5 activity
  2. any questions about Bedford focus for chapters 4 or 6?
  3. discuss chapter 6 assignment
  4. finish chapter 3 debates
  5. Skype Buddies
Th 3/31
Class 6
  1. Build A School team presentations
  2. a look at chapter 4 assignment
  3. certification research activity
  4. NASDTEC Interstate Agreement / reciprocity
  5. how blogs are graded
  6. a look at Blackboard
T 4/5
Class 7
  1. any questions about Bedford focus for chapter 6?
  2. one last school
  3. what can we learn from Build A School
  4. wiki overview, set up a wiki account, start a wiki
  5. meet with your concentration members and work on your professional organization wiki
  6. using your new wiki for chapter 6 assignment if necessary (and what is a digital artifact for chapter 6?)
Th 4/7
Class 8
  1. questions/thoughts on Praxis, Practicum, Laptops, and Transferring Major
  2. share notebooks
  3. another look at the final notebook and the rubric
  4. discuss and assign standards
T 4/12
Class 9
  1. share chapter 6 classroom plans
  2. any questions about Bedford focus for chapters 7 or 13?
  3. how's mentoring going?
  4. mentoring research consent forms
  5. linking to other wiki pages; changing navigation
  6. peer feedback on professional organization wiki
Th 4/14
Class 10
  1. any questions about Bedford focus for chapter 13?
  2. look ahead: a printout of your résumé (do it over break)
  3. standards presentation
4/18-22
Happy April Break!

T 4/26
Class 11
  1. résumé activity
  2. team follow up
  3. homework pledge
  4. look at Thursday's and Tuesday's agendas and homework assignments for rest of semester
  5. transparent teaching so far: Build A School? standards? chapter 6? chapter 5 activity?
  6. San Jacinto Day (April 21)
Th 4/28
Class 12
Work day -- work on your 101 notebook if you haven't already finished it
T 5/3
Class 13
  1. portfolios 1:50-2:30 in North Dining Hall-- meet there; be sure to find Dr. Theresa to "check in" that you attended
  2. 2:30 return to Ed Center classroom for remainder of class period
  3. turn in philosophy paper on paper
  4. upload digital version of your philosophy paper to TK20
  5. look at Blackboard; reassessment plans
  6. pass the moose--add your quote
  7. share graduation plans
  8. professional promise
  9. ^good teaching brainstorm
  10. ^good teaching rubrics
  • philosophy paper bring a stapled printout with your self-assessment on top and a copy of your Dr. Tiana version on the bottom; but also bring a digital version with you
  • graduation plan
W 5/4
Symposium

Th 5/5
Class 14
  1. professional promise handout for those that didn't get it Tuesday
  2. take the final mentoring survey
  3. scope and sequencing / scaffolding
  4. index card Q&A
  5. evaluations